Sectional case for voting-machines.



No. 847,045. l

. I A. B. CAMP.

SEGTIUNAL CASE FOR VOTING MAOHINES.

' APPLIOATION FILED SEP'1.4, 1906.

2 SHBIITB-BE BET 1.

PATENTED MAR.12,190'7. r

v i IlHhh INVENTOR ATTORNEY PATENTED MAR. 12, 1907.

A. B. CAMP. 4 SEGT'IONALIGASE FOR VOTING MACHINES.

' AYYLIGhTSO'K TILED SEPT 4, 19063 2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

\NVENTOR WlTNESSES: I

OQWW ATTORNEY miliar with voting-machines that the laws of- I greatly. 7

face of a voting-machine is to set up the UNITED STATES ATENT- --orrron Y ARTHUR B. CAMP, or :P-ITTSFIELD, MASSAcHUsETTs, ASSIGNOR TOQITRI UMPH vo'r uc MACHINE COMPANY, or PITTSFIE-LD, A CORPORATION or NEW JERSEY.

-MAssAcirUsET '-rs,*

SEC'II'ION'AL. vcase FORVOTINGQ'NIA-CHINES,

Specification ofietters Patent. 1

matedara 12,1903.

Application an September 4, 0 erial N... 3331040,

To all whom itmwyponcern):

Be it known that I, ARTHUR B. CAMP, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Pitts-. field, county of Berkshire, State of Massachu- I setts, have invented a new and useful Secand end plates. Special cases must-he made, however, for each size and type of machine. It is-of course Well understood by those fadifier'ent States call fordifierent modesof setting up=a votingmachine and that" local requirements as" to the number of ofiices to be voted forland the number of candidates to be' voted for for the different ofi'ices vary A common arrangement oi the party-tickets in vertical columns and .to arrange the names of candidates for each office in. horizontal lines. vious that in order to increase the number of offices to be voted for the machine must be extended vertically and in order-to increase the number of tickets or candidates for the different oflices the machine must beeiitended horizontally.

It is the object of the present invention to produce a case for voting-machines built up -of superposed independent sections or units so constructed-that a Voting-machine case can be made of any required height or lengthwithout the necessity of building special cases for machines of varyingsize, type, or design. I

With this and other obj sets in View the invention consists in certain constructions and in certain and then specifically pointed' out in the claims hereunto appended- In the accompanymg drawings, formin a It'will of coursebe ob-.'

art s, improvements, and combinations, 'w 'ch will .behereinafter described section detached, part ofthe tie-bolts being removed; Fig. 3, a-plan view of a section de' 5 5 'tached, a portion of the tie-bolts b eing're+- 1nove'd;' Figi, an elevation showing the ends -of two front plates connected together as ii -extending!) e machinehorizontally;

- Fig.5, a detail. plan view'of a tiebolt re-' 6o moved, the sleeves beinginsectionj .a'ndFig.

6 is a plan viewof a voting-lever formed from asingle' piece of wire. structed the cases comprise one or more .front and backplates, a top plate, a" b'ase,;

' lO'denotes the'base of a ,yoting maehine; 11, the top'plate, 12, the top front-plate; 13, the top back plate; 14, the bottom fronta a plate, 15, the bottom back plate, which may e. of any ordinary 'or referred construction; 16', the top rail, to w 'chthe top front and back plates are secured, and 17 the bottom 7'0 rail, to which thefbottom front and back. plates are secured. The top-frontand back plates are additionall secured to the-top rail, and the bettorn out and back plates are additionally secured to the base; These '7 5 or similar'parts are commonly used in voting-j machines-without regard to their height or, len th. My resent ;invention'-ri. 6., the building up oi the case-of inde endent sections or uniits'in accordance wit ;the height"8o or length of the machine,'.is applicable to the intermediate portion of the machine.

My novel sections each-comprise afront plate 18,11; back plate 19,-and-a lurality of U-shapc'l-tie-bolts 20,-;by which t e plates of 8 5' each section are secured together, and the sections are secured to each other and the. upperand lower'sections are secured to the topfront and back plates and-the bottom front andback plates,'respective1y. The op front lates 18 of the sections are provided near t eir upper and lower edges with holes 21,- through each'of which one leg of a U-' shaped tie-bolt passes, and with recesses 22, extending from the holes to the'edges', which receive a portion of the headiof the tie-bolt. aaclearly shown in Figs. 1, .2,} .an'd- 3. The. free ends of the legs of-thetie-bolts pass throu hholes 23 in the back, lates' 19, (see dotte lines, Fig.3,) are rovi ed with'shoul- 10o ,ders againstwhich the ack plates rest, are threaded, and are engaged by nuts 25 to lock the plates-and also the sections together.

24 denotes sleeves on the .legs of the tie-bolts,

a 'ainst the ends-of which the inner faces of t e front and back'plates of the sections bear.

I ,Each section therefore comprises the plates 18- and 19 and a plurality'of tiesbolts in its upper and lower edges, bywhich the plates 0 the section are held together, and the sec- 'tion is rigidly secured to contiguous sections above 'and below it, the lower section being attached in the same manner to the bottomfront and baekplates and the upper section to the top front and backplates. The u'per; and lower edges of the plates of the sections are provided with bearing-recesses 26, which receive the journals 27- of voting membe'rs :28, contiguous bearing-recesses being formed in the upper edges of the bottom front and back plates-and the lower edges of the't'op-fiont and back plates. Each pair of contiguous bearing r'ecesses-forms, when I the-sections are assembled,a complete-bear- ;ing for-a journal of a 2'0.

voting member, as is clearly shown- An important feature of the resent'invention is that itenables me to -piece either by casting, :piece of. wire.

orm the voting members complete in a single As shown 1n the drawings, voting member comprises the journals resetting-lug-29, which is engaged by a chain orother flexible member (not-shown, as

each

it fOI-IIIS no portion of the present invention) to. reset the voting member after a voting operation, ahandle 30 for convenience in OgBI'8;tiOI1,fiIld fl counter-dog 31, which is a apted'to engage the corresponding counter (not shown) toeffect the counting of the vote cast by operation of -the voting member. In F ig. -6 I have illustrated" member made-complete from a single-piece of wire. I thereby effect an important sav 1 ingin the cost of-construction throughthe v eo'actionpfthe single-piece voting members 4' with-the sections of the case. I

. 141 have. illustrated ffour vertical .n -p ar tyco umns of voting members with the accompanying fiartyl-levers, which areiridieco .cated by at the extreme right pantydever and may 'c'ol'u mn. the present: instance I. have made-longer than the umn of. voting members is n'ot provided with a" beused as a question shown the backplates 1950f the sections as of extra length are v forging, or from a) special machines of a ,form of voting front plates in'orderto' provide a'spBce- (indicated-by 33)'f or, a group ingmechanism. (Not shown) It should construction of a voting-machine may be varied to an almost unlimited extent withoutdeparting from the principle of the pres ent invention, the gist ofwhich lies in building up a votii'ig-machine case of independent sections comprising front and back plates of suitable shape and size to meet the requirements ofthe construction and U-shaped tiebolts by which the plates of each section are secured together and the sections are rigidly secured to each other.

my invention, I

dependent "sections each consisting of front and back plates, said plates being provided 'in' their edges with corresponding recesses whichtogether form bearings for voting members, and U-shaped tie-bolts bywhich the plates of the sections are and the sections are secured to each other.

2. A, voting-inachine-case section comprising" front and back plates provided in their edges with recesses 26, for the purpose set forth, near their'edges with holes and "from theholesto. the edges with recesses, and- L;'.I.-'shaped tie b0lts -Whose heads engage the recesses, one leg of'eachbolt passing tl.1rough correspondingholes in the front and back plates.

' testimony whereof I ailix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

ARTHUR B. CAMP. Witnesses;

;F. B. Rives,-

JAMEs W;- SY'NAN.

.be understood, however, that the details of secured together 

